Overlooking the Potomac River is America’s premier cultural campus: The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. It’s our national performing arts center, with Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson involved in its creation.

So, in the course of things, it makes sense that sitting presidents appoint their own board members during their administration.

In this hyperpartisan era, it’s not surprising that the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media reported based on anonymous sources that artists were balking at President Donald Trump’s ideals of bringing the performance halls back to a prestigious, family-appropriate collection of venues. During the pre-opening command performance of Les Miserables, it was said that about 10 performers from the troupe were going to boycott their own starring performances.

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